Andreas Føllesdalhttp://www.follesdal.net
PhilosopherWed, 12 Jun 2019 20:43:10 +0000en-US
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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.3En konstruktiv USA-kritiker og programmet han skaptehttp://www.follesdal.net/en-konstruktiv-usa-kritiker-og-programmet-han-skapte/
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:52:46 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1395Continue reading →]]>I disse dager er det 70 år siden utenriksminister Hallvard Lange og den amerikanske ambassaderåden i Norge Henry Villard signerte avtalen som etablerte det norske Fulbrightprogrammet. Siden den gang har nesten 3700 nordmenn reist med Fulbrightstipend til amerikanske universiteter, og 1550 amerikanere hatt tilsvarende opphold i Norge…. I dag finnes utfordringer som gjør Fulbrightprogrammet mer relevant enn noen gang…. mer
]]>UiO’s web – bare så enhetlig som absolutt nødvendig, og for øvrig mangfoldhttp://www.follesdal.net/uios-web-bare-sa-enhetlig-som-absolutt-nodvendig-og-for-ovrig-mangfold/
Mon, 27 May 2019 06:38:19 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1383Flott at UiO nå arbeider med å forbedre nettstedet sitt. Her er noen spørsmål og råd på veien… uniforum.uio.no[LINK][WEB]
]]>Legitimacy Criticisms of International Courts: Not Only Fuzzy Rhetoric?http://www.follesdal.net/legitimacy-criticisms-of-international-courts-not-only-fuzzy-rhetoric/
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 06:51:11 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1372Continue reading →]]>in Legitimacy: The State and Beyond, ed. W. Sadurski, M. Sevel & K. Walton. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2019: 223-237. Many claims that international courts (ICs) are illegitimate are related in complex ways – differently in fields ranging from human rights to trade. This is not to deny that some talk of the illegitimacy of ICs is inaccurate or wrong. But it is possible and indeed valuable to develop a coherent account that connects several various usages, so as to specify better, worse and downright mistaken claims concerning the legitimacy of ICs. normative legitimacy provides helpful unity to many of the canvassed forms of legitimacy. The particular substantive normative conception of global justice to be respected and promoted by these institutions is not central to this task. I develop the outline of a theory by drawing on Joseph Raz’ ‘service conception’ of normatively legitimate authority, David Easton’s ‘systems analysis,’ and a cosmopolitan normative theory. Section 1 sketches relevant aspects of Raz’ account of legitimate authority: the service conception. Section 2 lays out some normative standards relevant for the ICs. The next sections then elaborate why, on the service conception, various legitimacy conceptions matter for normative legitimacy: why legality matters (section 3) including some reasons for the (limited) significance of state consent – even by rogue states. Section 4 starts to explore why and when actual compliance is important but not always decisive. Section 5 considers why the performance or effects of an IC matters. [WEB].
]]>The European Consensus Doctrine: A better Signpost!http://www.follesdal.net/the-european-consensus-doctrine-a-better-signpost/
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:51:50 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1325“A Better Signpost, Not a Better Walking Stick: How to Evaluate the European Consensus Doctrine”. Building Consensus on European Consensus: Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond. P. Kapotas &V. Tzevelokos. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 189-209. [D0I/LINK][WEB].
]]>Ja til moderat plan S for åpen tilganghttp://www.follesdal.net/ja-til-moderat-plan-s-for-apen-tilgang/
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 06:07:39 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1301Continue reading →]]>Norges Forskningsråd og andre europeiske forskningsråd vil endevende modellen for vitenskapelig publisering ved å tvinge gjennom «åpen tilgang» for vitenskapelige arbeider. Tanken er god men gjennomføringen dårlig. Vi foreslår en liten endring som vil fikse svakhetene ved planen. Publisering av forfatterversjon i et åpent tilgjengelig arkiv bør godtas som åpen tilgang. Vårt forslag har to store fortrinn. For det første vil denne moderate versjonen av Plan S faktisk kunne realiseres innen 2020, som er det ambisiøse målet man har satt seg. Uten den endringen vi foreslår, kan overgangen ta betydelig lengre tid og gi stor usikkerhet for forskere. Aftenposten (16. november 2018). Signert 27 forskningsledere [D0I/LINK][WEB]
]]>Review of Hathaway and Shapiro The Internationalistshttp://www.follesdal.net/review-of-hathaway-and-shapiro-the-internationalists/
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:54:58 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1298Continue reading →]]>-“More Than Meets the Eye – and Less: On the Internationalists.” Global Constitutionalism 7 (3): 330-341. These comments explore further some game theoretical themes of O Hathaway and S Shapiro The Internationalists (2017) of how outlawing of war led to profound changes in international relations even when the norm was breached. The Peace Pact arguably contributed to avoid war by creating institutions – such as international courts – that helped stabilize an assurance game among states by providing trustworthy information and commitments, in turn influencing practices and beliefs concerning mutual non-aggression.
Second, the authors at times claim that the Peace Pact was not only a cause of, but the cause of the massive shift in reduced warfare. Further arguments would be required to substantiate that this treaty not only was a necessary condition, but the trigger that ‘began a cascade’ (xv). Other factors might also have been necessary, and equally deserving of the label ‘triggers,’ – such as increased global interdependence, or democratization. The authors might best modify their claim.
Third, the authors claim not only to present a historical account, but also to draw lessons for the future. At a time when international norms and institutions are under severe pressure, such lessons are very welcome. However, there are reasons to be less optimistic than the authors about the extent of lessons we can draw from The Internationalists about how to preserve and improve on the New World Order of the Pact, rather than backsliding into the Old World Order.[D0I/LINK][WEB]
]]>“Power or Authority; Actions or Beliefs”http://www.follesdal.net/power-or-authority-actions-or-beliefs/
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:29:08 +0000http://www.follesdal.net/?p=1288Continue reading →]]>in International Court Authority. K. Alter, L. Helfer & M. R. Madsen. New York, Oxford University Press: 412-421. Institutional, political and social circumstances affect the impact of international courts (‘ICs’). The valuable and intellectually intriguing aim of the project in this volume, ‘The Variable Authority of International Courts’ is to develop and apply a metric to assess the effects of some of these contexts.
The chapter discusses two questions concerning the project. What do they seek to measure with their metric – and are the findings actually about authority? Furthermore, AHM go to great lengths to proclaim methodological agnosticism about actors’ beliefs and motives, and argue for the irrelevance of normative legitimacy for this research project. Yet the former claim seems incorrect and the second is both unnecessary and ill defended. [D0I/LINK][SSRN][WEB].